your "thing" is writing...

i was talking to a friend the other night...someone i grew up with, but hadn't really spent any time with since high school.  our lives do not intersect in any way other than on facebook (which, for many of us, that is the ONLY way we interract too and for that simple fact alone i am grateful for the life-sucking force that is facebook).  anyway, we were at a friend's birthday party the other night and somehow the subject of "things"...as in "what's your thing?" or "my thing is..." like a hobby or a skill, came up.  i said something to the effect of "i don't have a thing...nothing i am really good at" and he simply said, "your thing is writing".  that was it.  i looked him in the eye and asked, "you read that?"  i guess i just couldn't imagine why he would either look for my blog or bother reading it.  but, he clearly had.  it was a simple enough conversation, but one that stuck with me.  a defining moment of sorts i suppose.  so, i've been thinking about that all week...the idea of being seen as a writer, not that at this point i truly think anyone sees me legitimately as such because i don't really see this as the same as having something published but it definitely made me think.